Viewfinder: Ultra-Orthodox Protests in Israel

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Apr 4, 2017

Mounted policemen disperse Orthodox Jews in the center of Jerusalem during a protest against Israeli army conscription on April 3rd, 2017. (Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli security forces break up a protest of ultra-Orthodox Jews with water cannons in Jerusalem on October 23rd, 2017. Several thousand ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked the main entrance to Jerusalem as part of a series of demonstrations against serving in the Israeli military.

Israeli security forces break up a protest of ultra-Orthodox Jews with water cannons in Jerusalem on October 23rd, 2017.

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Friends and family carry Yosef Othman's coffin on September 26th, 2017, in Jerusalem, Israel, at the funeral for one of three guards killed during an attack at a West Bank settlement.

Funeral-goers carry Yosef Othman's coffin on September 26th, 2017, in Jerusalem, Israel. Othman was one of the three Israeli guards killed during an attack at a West Bank settlement.

A Palestinian protester throws stones toward Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on May 15th, 2017.

A Palestinian protester throws stones toward Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on May 15th, 2017.